Commonly, the Sethian cosmogonic myth describes an intended prologue to the events of Genesis and the rest of the Pentateuch, which by its emendation brings about a radical reinterpretation of the typical orthodox Jewish conception of creation, and the divine's relation to reality.

The Gnostics ( see Sethian, Ophites ) believed that God ( the deity worshiped by Jews, Greek Pagan philosophers and Christians ) was really an evil creator or demiurge that stood between us and some greater, more truly benevolent real deity — although there is no reason given why the higher deity is not a creator-god as well, nor why the higher deity allows the realm of the evil demiurge as flawed and unjust to continue to exist.

It should be noted that the Nag Hammadi library Sethian text Trimorphic Protennoia identifies Gnosticism as professing Father, Son and feminine wisdom Sophia or as Professor John D. Turner denotes, God the Father, Sophia the Mother, and Logos the Son.

The Sethian cosmogony was most famously contained in the Apocryphon of John, which describes an unknown God, the same as Paul had done in the Acts of the Apostles 17: 23.

In the Ophite and Sethian systems, which have many affinities with that last mentioned, the making of the world is ascribed to a company of seven archons, whose names are given, but their chief, “ Yaldabaoth ” ( also known as " Yaltabaoth " or " Ialdabaoth ") comes into still greater prominence.

* Book 1 is a four-part prose text on the salvation process, beginning with the ascension to heaven of Seth, in advance of his father Adam ( compare Sethian Gnosticism ).

However, he is strongly supported by his crew-notably a group of smugglers and Sethian religious fanatics recruited at the little port of Shelmerston ( fictional ) in south-west England.

Sethian is a Finnish progressive metal band, originally formed in 1998 but whose debut album, Into the Silence, was not completed and released until 2003.

Sethian can be compared to For My Pain in that it is a Finnish metal supergroup.

The Secret Book of John ( Apocryphon of John ) is a 2nd-century AD Sethian Gnostic Christian text of secret teachings.

The Valentinian version is more overtly Christianized than the Apocryphon of John which is called the Sethian version.

The Sethian Gnosticism is more Jewish in background and context.

In the Apocryphon of John, a tractate in the Nag Hammadi Library containing the most extensive recounting of the Sethian creation myth, the Barbēlō is described as " the first power, the glory, Barbēlō, the perfect glory in the aeons, the glory of the revelation ".

Unlike other non-Nicenian Gospels, the Gospel of Judas is Sethian in orientation in that Adam's son Seth is seen as a spiritual ancestor.

As in other Sethian documents, Jesus is equated with Seth: " The first is Seth, who is called Christ ".

The main contents concern the Sethian Gnostic understanding of how the earth came into being, how Seth, in the Gnostic interpretation, is incarnated as Jesus in order to release people's souls from the evil prison that is creation.

Zostrianos is a Sethian Gnostic text from the New Testament apocrypha.

This myth is typically presupposed by Sethian manuscripts, and occasionally by those of later schools.

The Three Steles of Seth is a Sethian Gnostic text from the New Testament apocrypha.

The text is thought to be from the Sethian sect of Gnostics ( the sect that viewed the biblical Seth as their hero, who was reincarnated as Jesus ).

The last of these seems to have undergone Sethian revision, although similar, fully Sethian texts have their own distinct perspective — maybe suggesting some Sethians were inspired by Barbeloite writings.

The level set method was initially proposed to track moving interfaces by Osher and Sethian in 1988 and has spread across various imaging domains in the late nineties.

Fast marching method has been introduced by James A. Sethian.

The level set method was developed in the 1980s by the American mathematicians Stanley Osher and James Sethian.

A group of sailors belonging to a Sethian religious group in early nineteenth century Britain appears as characters in several of the Aubrey-Maturin series of novels by Patrick O ' Brian.

A Sethian of the gnostic race would consider themselves a foreigner, born of foreigners ( those within Seth ’ s immovable race ).

The majority of scholars tend to understand Plotinus ' opponents as being a Gnostic sect — certainly ( specifically Sethian ), several such groups were present in Alexandria and elsewhere about the Mediterranean during Plotinus ' lifetime.

John D. Turner, professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska and famed translator and editor of the Nag Hammadi library, stated that the text Plotinus and his students read was Sethian gnosticism which predates Christianity.

Six weeks later the pair broke from the Temple of Set, forming their own Sethian movement, the Sethian Liberation Movement.

It was an " acoustical experiment ", where Jämsen and the new vocalist Tapio Wilska ( of Sethian and Lyijykomppania ) shared the singing duties among them.

It proclaims one form of Sethian Gnosticism.

* 2004: James A. Sethian

Sethian are currently out of action due to the members being pre-occupied with recording and touring obligations in their main bands.

The most important Mohallas or localities of old Bhera are the Mohallah Imli Wala, Shesh Mehal, Pirachagan Mohalla, the Sethian wala Mohalla, the Sahnian wala Mohalla.

Moreover, man may not supplant or frustrate the physical arrangements established by God, who through the law of rhythm has provided a natural method for the control of conception.

Notice that this man had a threefold conception of God which is the secret of his faith.

This is the faith that moved the psalmist to add his second conception of God: `` The Lord is my salvation ''.

His conception of First Cause was the idea that the Universe must have been caused by something that was itself uncaused, which he asserted was God.

This attitude was bolstered by the general conception that the Holy Roman Emperor and all other European Kings were chosen by God to be leaders.

They believe he is the Son of Man, in that he inherited human nature ( with its inclination to sin ) from his mother, and the Son of God by virtue of his miraculous conception by the power of God.

( This Zoroastrian conception of polar opposition and conflict would later come to influence the development of Christianity as it elaborated upon the idea of the Devil as an ultimate source of evil opposed to the Christian God, an idea that was previously absent in Judaism.

Modern deists believe that they must continue what the classical deists started and continue to use modern human knowledge to come to understand God, which in turn is why a human-like God that can lead to numerous contradictions and inconsistencies is no longer believed in and has been replaced with a much more abstract conception.

In the 1960s, theologian Charles Hartshorne scrupulously examined and rejected both deism and pandeism ( as well as pantheism ) in favor of a conception of God whose characteristics included " absolute perfection in some respects, relative perfection in all others " or " AR ", writing that this theory " is able consistently to embrace all that is positive in either deism or pandeism ", concluding that " panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations ".

Epicurus's technically hedonistic views and philosophical teachings, though opposed to the Hedonists of his time, countered Jewish scripture, the strictly monotheistic conception of God in Judaism and the Jewish belief in the afterlife and the world to come.

The proclaimed Roman Catholic dogma states " that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.

Kaplan's central idea of understanding Judaism as a religious civilization was an easily accepted position within Conservative Judaism, but his naturalistic conception of God was not as acceptable.

Carlyle has commented on this passage, " There can be little doubt that St Paul's words imply some conception analogous to the ' natural law ' in Cicero, a law written in men's hearts, recognized by man's reason, a law distinct from the positive law of any State, or from what St Paul recognized as the revealed law of God.

If, on the other hand, the conception taken as the foundation of the system is that the great inclusive unity is the world itself, or the universe, God is swallowed up in that unity, which may be designated nature.

This conception of God influenced New England transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson.

While mainstream Rabbinic Judaism is classically monotheistic and follows in the footsteps of the Aristotelian theologian Maimonides, the panentheistic conception of God can be found in certain Jewish mystical currents.

Such a conception of reality may be thoroughly predestinarian, if God is the personal cause of continued existence and the orchestrator or determiner of the relationship between each present event and each subsequent present event ; but, it is only predestination if in this conception God acts with absolute freedom and entire knowledge of Himself.

Pre-existence, beforelife, or pre-mortal existence refers to the belief that each individual human soul existed before conception, and at some point before birth enters or is placed by God into the body.

Pre-existence encompasses both the belief that the soul was created by God at some time prior to conception and the belief that the soul is co-eternal with God, not created by him.